__author__ = 'DarkWeb' # Here, we are importing the auxiliary functions to clean or convert data from Forums.Utilities.utilities import * # Here, we are importing BeautifulSoup to search through the HTML tree from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # This is the method to parse the Description Pages (one page to each topic in the Listing Pages) #parses description pages, so takes html pages of description pages using soup object, and parses it for info it needs #stores info it needs in different lists, these lists are returned after being organized #@param: soup object looking at html page of description page #return: 'row' that contains a variety of lists that each hold info on the description page def incogsnoo_description_parser(soup): # Fields to be parsed topic = "-1" # 0 topic name ***$ user = [] # 1 all users of each post ***$ author status = [] # 2 all user's authority in each post such as (adm, member, dangerous) reputation = [] # 3 all users's karma in each post (usually found as a number) ??? ups interest = [] # 4 all user's interest in each post sign = [] # 5 all user's signature in each post (usually a standard message after the content of the post) post = [] # 6 all messages of each post feedback = [] # 7 all feedbacks of each user (this was found in just one Forum and with a number format) addDate = [] # 8 all dated of each post ***$ created image_user = [] # 9 all user avatars of each post image_post = [] # 10 all first images of each post # Finding the topic (should be just one coming from the Listing Page) topic = soup.find("div", {"class": "title"}).find("h2").text topic = topic.replace('"', '') topic = cleanString(topic.strip()) # the first post's html is separated from all subsequent comments/replies/posts to the first post # so parse the first post by itself first # Finding body of first post post_text = soup.find("div", {"class": "md"}) if post_text: post_text = post_text.text.strip() post.append(cleanString(post_text)) else: # some posts just links to other sites/articles/videos and have no text by itself post_link = soup.find("div", {"class": "title"}).find("a").get("href") post_link = cleanLink(post_link) post.append(post_link) # User p_tag = soup.find("p", {"class": "submitted"}) author = p_tag.find("a") if author: author = author.text.strip() elif "[deleted]" in p_tag.text: author = "deleted" else: author = "-1" user.append(cleanString(author)) # Finding the status of the author status.append("-1") # Finding the reputation of the user reputation.append("-1") # Finding the interest of the author interest.append("-1") # Finding signature sign.append("-1") # Finding feedback upvote = soup.find("div", {"class": "score"}).find("span") if upvote: upvote = upvote.text.strip() else: upvote = "-1" feedback.append(cleanString(upvote)) # Finding the date of the post - e.g. "Fri, 18 December 2023 05:49:20 GMT" dt = soup.find("p", {"class": "submitted"}).find("span")["title"] # Convert to datetime object - e.g. 2023-12-18 05:49:20 date_time_obj = datetime.strptime(dt, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') # sdate = date_time_obj.strftime('%m %d %Y') # stime = date_time_obj.strftime('%I:%M %p') # date = convertDate(sdate, "english", datetime.now()) + " " + stime # e.g. "12/18/2023 05:49 AM" addDate.append(date_time_obj) image_user.append("-1") image_post.append("-1") posts = soup.find("div", {"class": "comments"}).findAll("details") # For each message (post), get all the fields we are interested to: for ipost in posts: # Finding user p_tag = ipost.find("p", {"class": "author"}) author = p_tag.find("a") if author: author = author.text.strip() elif "[deleted]" in p_tag.text: author = "deleted" else: author = "-1" user.append(cleanString(author)) # Finding the status of the author status.append("-1") # Finding the reputation of the user reputation.append("-1") # Finding the interest of the author interest.append("-1") # Finding signature sign.append("-1") # Finding the post comment = ipost.find("div", {"class": "md"}) if comment: comment = comment.text.strip() else: comment = "-1" post.append(cleanString(comment)) # Finding feedback upvote = ipost.find("p", {"class": "ups"}) if upvote: upvote = upvote.text.strip().split()[0] else: upvote = "-1" feedback.append(cleanString(upvote)) # Finding the date of the post - e.g. "Fri, 18 December 2023 05:49:20 GMT" dt = ipost.find("p", {"class": "created"})["title"] # Convert to datetime object - e.g. 2023-12-18 05:49:20 date_time_obj = datetime.strptime(dt, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') # sdate = date_time_obj.strftime('%m %d %Y') # stime = date_time_obj.strftime('%I:%M %p') # date = convertDate(sdate, "english", datetime.now()) + " " + stime # e.g. "12/18/2023 05:49 AM" addDate.append(date_time_obj) image_user.append("-1") image_post.append("-1") # Populate the final variable (this should be a list with all fields scraped) row = (topic, user, status, reputation, interest, sign, post, feedback, addDate, image_user, image_post) # Sending the results return row # This is the method to parse the Listing Pages (one page with many posts) #parses listing pages, so takes html pages of listing pages using soup object, and parses it for info it needs #stores info it needs in different lists, these lists are returned after being organized #@param: soup object looking at html page of listing page #return: 'row' that contains a variety of lists that each hold info on the listing page def incogsnoo_listing_parser(soup): nm = 0 # *this variable should receive the number of topics forum = "Incogsnoo" # 0 *forum name board = "-1" # 1 *board name (the previous level of the topic in the Forum categorization tree. # For instance: Security/Malware/Tools to hack Facebook. The board here should be Malware) author = [] # 2 *all authors of each topic topic = [] # 3 *all topics views = [] # 4 number of views of each topic posts = [] # 5 number of posts of each topic href = [] # 6 this variable should receive all cleaned urls (we will use this to do the marge between # Listing and Description pages) addDate = [] # 7 when the topic was created (difficult to find) image_author = [] # 8 all author avatars used in each topic # Finding the board (should be just one) board = soup.find("a", {"class": "subreddit"}).find("h2") board = cleanString(board.text.strip()) # Finding the repeated tag that corresponds to the listing of topics itopics = soup.find("div", {"id": "links", "class": "sr"}).findAll("div", {"class": "link"}) itopics.pop() # Counting how many topics we have found so far nm = len(itopics) index = 0 for itopic in itopics: # Finding the author of the topic p_tag = itopic.find("p", {"class": "submitted"}) user = p_tag.find("a") if user: user = user.text.strip() elif "[deleted]" in p_tag.text: user = "deleted" else: user = "-1" author.append(cleanString(user)) # Adding the topic to the topic list topic_title = itopic.find("div", {"class": "title"}).find("h2").text topic.append(cleanString(topic_title)) # Finding the number of Views views.append("-1") # Finding the number of posts comments = itopic.find("a", {"class": "comments"}).text number_comments = comments.split()[0] posts.append(cleanString(number_comments)) # Adding the url to the list of urls link = itopic.find("a", {"class": "comments"}).get("href") href.append(link) # Finding dates p_tag = itopic.find("p", {"class": "submitted"}) dt = p_tag.find("span")["title"] date_time_obj = datetime.strptime(dt,'%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') # sdate = date_time_obj.strftime('%m %d %Y') # stime = date_time_obj.strftime('%I:%M %p') # date = convertDate(sdate, "english", datetime.now()) + " " + stime # e.g. "12/18/2023 05:49 AM" addDate.append(date_time_obj) image_author.append("-1") index += 1 return organizeTopics(forum, nm, board, author, topic, views, posts, href, addDate, image_author) #called by the crawler to get description links on a listing page #@param: beautifulsoup object that is using the correct html page (listing page) #return: list of description links from a listing page def incogsnoo_links_parser(soup): # Returning all links that should be visited by the Crawler href = [] listing_parent = soup.find("div", {"id": "links", "class": "sr"}) listing = listing_parent.findAll("div", {"class": "entry"}) for entry in listing: parent_div = entry.find("div", {"class": "meta"}).find("div", {"class", "links"}) a_tag = parent_div.find("a", {"class", "comments"}) if a_tag: href.append(a_tag.get("href")) return href